Archive for August 2026

The ACT Government appears determined to commercialise one of Canberra’s most important waterfront sites before revealing what may be built there, what the impacts will be or whether the existing planning rules will survive the process. Acton Waterfront is shaping up as one of the most poorly conceived urban-renewal exercises attempted by the Barr Government.…

The federal Labor MP says he will continue serving while contesting the charges, after a Darwin court allowed him to attend functions alongside NT Administrator David Connolly under strict conditions. Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has declared that he will not stand aside and intends to continue serving after speaking with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,…